Leopard 10.5.1 is now available — Leopard bugs got you down? Apple just pushed out its first update for the new OS, 10.5.1. It looks like it cures a whole laundry list of niggles with Leopard, including that nasty "potential data loss" issue with partitions in Finder.

With one bound, Apple is free of 54 security bugs — Apple has rolled out software updates that patch just about everything but the kitchen sink. In all, there are fixes for at least 54 security bugs, many of which could allow attackers to remotely execute code on vulnerable Macs and Windows machines.

The Death of E-Mail — TEENAGERS ARE ABANDONING THEIR YAHOO! AND HOTMAIL ACCOUNTS. DO THE REST OF US HAVE TO? — By 2002, everyone in my family had become an Internet convert. For the technophobic older generation, signing up for an e-mail account was a concession to us youngsters …

Is email dead? No, but it's not well — After I wrote a post yesterday about Google and Yahoo's plans to turn email into a Facebook-style social hub, someone commented and included a link to a Slate piece about the "death of email." As Zoli Erdos notes in his response …

Email, 1961-2007 R.I.P... Thank God! — The death of e-mail. - By Chad Lorenz - Slate Magazine Slate Magazine is out with an article titled "The Death of Email." The article points to the declining useage of email by the people who really matter. The kids.

Amazon 'Customers Vote' deals are outstanding — How'd you like a Wii for $79? Unbelievable. See this is why you can't get a Wii anywhere. Amazon's been hoarding them all for this very event. Up for grabs is your choice of 1000 Wii consoles at $79 each, 1000 40GB PS3 consoles at $139 each …

Facebook: Who Else Wants to Invest at $15B? No One? — It's been three weeks since Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg took a desperate Microsoft to the cleaners with a $15 billion valuation. It's been 2.9 weeks since Forbes reported that Facebook had raised an additional $500 million from …

WebKit 3's ten new tricks — As Apple's core rendering engine for Safari (and many third-party apps), WebKit has come quite a ways since its early days at Apple. Open sourced in 2005, its development has remained sure and steady, thanks to a reliable increase in Safari's adoption …

Revenue: one search Google won't answer — Karim Temsamani ... expecting a surge in online advertising to be sustained for two years. — GOOGLE's new Australasian boss has predicted a surging online advertising market for the next two years, challenging recent industry predictions of a slowdown in the booming sector for 2008.

Candidates at Google: Barack Obama — Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs — Barack Obama added another "first" to his already notable list yesterday: he became the first U.S. presidential candidate — and, I'm guessing, the first high-level elected official …

Loopt extends location alerts — Loopt, which offers a mobile friend-finding service, has extended the reach of its application with a new feature that allows users to notify not just other Loopt users but any friend of their whereabouts via text or IM. — Starting Thursday the Loopt service …

Sony's PS3 With Blu-ray Gets Back As A Player — Sony appears to be coming up with a winning formula. Amazing what a steep price cut will do, but you can't argue with success. Howard Stringer, Sony's CEO, is on the wires saying Sony — [SNE Loading...

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